How was this video shot?

That's what I initially thought as well, but the camera movement looks pretty handheld, like on a rather unbalanced steadicam.
 
The steadicam looks really bad, but it doesn't look like the actors just "froze" on set...so not sure of the technique here.
 
Have to break it to you guys. But look again. It's done the old fashion way of playing the freeze game.
 
Look at the poses. They are very grounded. They're bracing themselves or in a position that allows them to be still. If they went to the trouble of doing bullet time, they would have objects and people in mid-step or something more organic and in motion. They shot it over-cranked to slow it down which hides moment. And they kept the camera moving. There looks to be post stabilization in the shot too.
 
I'm not even sure it's overcranked- at 3:02 you can see the steadicam op's (or other crew's) feet reflected in the fireplace, and it looks real time...
 
groveChuck said:
... at 3:02 you can see the steadicam op's (or other crew's) feet reflected in the fireplace, and it looks real time...
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Good catch! But I think it's both... at 0:37 you've got lemonade frozen in mid-air... and there's what looks to me like Twixtor warping on some shots.

With the camera-array gag you can get any motion you like -- the cameras don't have to be in a straight line a la Muybridge or Lost in Space; they can be in any pattern, which is the big thing The Matrix introduced. Arrange the cameras in a wavy line and presto -- handheld frozen time. I guess this would have been a ton of work to set up for every shot, so they cheated on the simple ones...?

Very impressive movie, anyhow...
 
The lemonade is a composite. Although it could have been plastic wrap. It's just a flat plane tracked on top. Look again, it slides a bit near the end. The other comp is adding the white glow over the flash of the photographer. This guy did a great job of doing something very cheaply but very affectively. I remember the film Buffalo 66 had an elaborate bullet time effect by using amazing makeup and the use of suspended beads to simulate blood splatter in mid air.
 
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